The Christiansburg High School sports hall of fame inducted five new individuals this past week.
Former longtime public address announcer, Tom Johnson, was joined by wrestler Cody Gardner, basketball player Pete Ramey, football and baseball player Lance Reynolds and multi-sport athlete Rick Becker.
Johnson was the original public address announcer for CHS for 30 years. He started in 1963.
Becker graduated from CHS in 1989 after a distinguished career in basketball, track and field and tennis. He was captain of the basketball team, which had a state tournament appearance while earning runner-up finishes in both the New River District and Region IV tournament. In track, he won the district championship in the triple jump.
Following his career at CHS, he continued playing basketball at Roanoke College where he earned all-conference honors and later was named to the college’s all-decade team of the 90s.
Becker currently serves as the chief executive officer of the Texas Orthopedic Hospital in Houston.
Gardner is from the class of 2007. Under the coaching of Kevin Dresser and Daryl Webber, he was a four-time district, four-time region and four-time state champion, securing all his titles in the 215-pound class.
He finished his high school wrestling career with a 182-6 overall record including 132 career pins and a 135-match winning streak.
Ramey became known as “Pistol Pete” because of his long-distance shooting. He was a three-year letterman and started all three years of varsity basketball. He was the leading scorer in the New River District, both his junior and senior seasons, and scored the most points in a game ever for a CHS player with 39 points, a record which still stands today. He also set a rebounding record for the most in a game and season.
As a junior, Ramey averaged 23.7 points per game and then as a senior 17.7 points per game. He was all New River District and honorable mention all-state twice in his career.
After graduation, he accepted a scholarship to attend St. Paul’s College to play basketball, later transferring to Radford University.
He worked in law enforcement for over 37 years before retiring in 2015 from Norfolk Southern Railway.
Reynolds played football and baseball, all four years of high school. As a quarterback, he was named to the 1997 all-Blue Ridge District second team, passing for over 1,200 yards and 10 touchdowns on the 1998 team that finished 8-2.
He was named first-team all-district, first-team all-region and honorable mention all-state.
During the 1998 season, he had two games over 300 yards passing accounted for 31 touchdowns.
In baseball, Reynolds was named to the 1997 second-team all-district squads after batting .481 at the plate with 20 stolen bases. During his senior year, he was named to the first-team all-district as a utility player. He received the Kevin Scott baseball award and moved on to a career in baseball at Emory and Henry College as a centerfielder.
